Usage examples (26)

• Oikonomos, however, responds that '' affusion '' (i.e. pouring), and much less '' aspersion '' (i.e. sprinkling), cannot ever be considered baptism.
• In the interval cold affusion was resorted to by the attendant in charge, but the patient was to all appearances dead.
• Cases, which at first were exceptional, gradually multiplied, so that, at length, the ordinary mode of baptism was by affusion.
• That galvanism, ammonia to the nostrils, cold affusion, and stimulants by the mouth are practically useless in the early stage.